Lee Anderson, Odysseus of Ashfield, gets himself very badly lost

Lee Anderson is officially the Reform Party’s first MP, but is he happy? It can’t be ignored that, at his official unveiling, he didn’t look particularly happy. For television viewers of Reform UK’s historic press conference on Monday morning, what the party’s first MP looked like was a very large Union Jack, which had been accidentally positioned directly between the lectern and the TV camera, completely obliterating his moment of history, which came in the form of a speech he was reading out from his laptop screen.

Eventually, a hunchbacked party staffer scurried in and, with the kind of subtle dexterity arguably not seen on television since Acorn Antiques went off air, just about saved the day by drag the offending piece of patriotic stage